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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Eighteen tickets to Cape Nome were sold in one day in Sait Lake last week. Quarantine has been continued in Mercnr until the tii st of April, owing to the appcui-ance of new smallpox I cases. j A large hotel is to he built opposite the, si te for t he new union depot at Salt Lake ily ly Montana and Salt Lake parties. Owing to the time lost by reason of the smallpox scare, the course of Study-In Study-In the public schools of Salt Lake City has been changed by eliminating all bu t vi tal sub ject -. The Westminster Presbyterian congregation con-gregation of Sal 1, Lake has selected a hile for their new house of uorsliipanil work on this magni liceu t cdi tice will begi u i u a short ti me. lUchard Stirlaad of Providence, Cliche county, has gone insane froni religious mania, and lias been taken to the insane asylum. lie shows a disposition dispo-sition to be violent at times. Ida Shimming, a Ki-year-old Salt Lake girl with a weakness for bicycler that belong to other people, was sent I tothe Orphans' Home and nursery last week hy Judge Norrell's court. Salt Lake stonemasons art.- demanding demand-ing an increase iu wages from $-1 to B1.50 per day, beginning May 1st. Contractors wiio have contracts ou hand will endeavor to push work before that date. William (.'rooks, an American Fork volunteer, came home from the Philippines Philip-pines last week aud surprised his rela-tivesand rela-tivesand friends. He remained behind when the majority of the volunteers came home last full. Web Greene luul W. D. Candland, of Mt. Pleasant, have secured possession of 1,500 acres of land near that town and will erect buildings for the purpose of breeding thoroughbred sheep and horned stock upon a large seals. Dr. ISagby, pastor of the Christian church iu Salt Lake, caught a burglar in his cellar last Thursday. Mr. Hagby took the fellow into the dining room and endeavored to show him the error of his way, while Mrs. Hagby cooked the man a good dinner. He was then told to go and siu no more. A lease lias been negotiated by Agent Mytou for the Indians ou the Uintah reservation, by which the Indians lease to shcepmon 700,000 acres of laud at a yearly rental of $18,400. The ludians objected to the sheepmen at first, fearing- that they were poor men who could not pay such a sum. Mrs. Pendleton, a pioneor of 1S-1S, died in Salt Lake last week, aged nearly 80 years. She was on the frontier all her days, having been born in Western New York when it was a frontier country, and removed to Illinois Illi-nois when it was a wilderness. She leaves eleven children aud thirty-seven grandchildren. An appeal to the state board of health came from Greenwich lust week, statinc that a family afflicted with smallpox is about to remove there from Koosharem, another to Beaver couuty, and another to Gainesville, while no attempt is made at maintaining a quarantine. Patients, the letter said, are concealed from Dr. Garrison, the representative of the state board of health. Three men, two of whom are said to have been deputy sheriffs and the other a prisoner from the county jail, created suppressed excitement in a Salt Lake gambling house by appearing disguised by false beard. It was thought they intended to hold up the joiut, but they were evidently trying to identify a i suspect by means of the prisoner with- : out creating suspicion as to their ideu- ! titv. j Mayor Thompson has approved the ordinance passed by the Salt Lake! council forbidding the sale of tobacco aud other narcotics to minors and mak- j ng it unlawful for junk dealers to re- ceive auy property from persons nude!- the age of IS years. A bundle containing a small infant, perhaps two weeks of age, was left on the front doorstop of John Piatt, of Salt Lake, au employee of the Rio ' Graude machine shops, last week. Mr. and Mrs. ITutt have no youug children aud will adopt the waif. I.ehi Thomas, a youth who several months ago escaped from the reform school at Ogden. was captured iu Salt Lake last week and returned to the institution. He had persistently kent off the street till the day of his ca'pture , w hen he ventured up towu. The sheepmen of Saupete, Juab, Se ' vier and Emery counties will organize an association for the recovery of stravs ' at the various dipping aud shearing 1 places, aud restoration to their owners. A brand book is to be published, so that any brand can be traced. Lorenzo Diekert of Salt Lake has been awarded S3, o iO damages from the Salt City street railway company. In : lStlj Mrs. Diekert was thrown to the '. floor of a car by its being suddenly j started, sustaiuiug injuries which it is alleged caused her death. ' |